Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers on the above subject. All =approaches, topics, and methodologies welcome. We are especially =interested in questions of authorship, authority, and the masculine =corporeal imaginary in American writing; disabilities as masculine =stigma and stigmata; disabilities and/as poetics; normativity, men, and =the authority of difference; men, disability, and "deviance"/the =cultural meaning, and potential, of disability as deviance; =masculinities/disabilities-sexualities/textualities; the disabled =worker, athlete, veteran, friend, lover, husband, father in American =writing.

Queries welcome. Please send 500-word proposals by March 1, 2006 to =Barbara Ladd, Associate Professor, Department of English, Emory =University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 or to bladd_at_emory.edu. Any requests =for audiovisual equipment should accompany the proposal. The 2006 SAMLA =meeting will be held in Charlotte, N.C. See http://www.samla.org for =general information.